Just Say Yes

The response today to yesterday’s bipartisan commission on the federal budget’s recommendations is an embarrassment.

Reasonable people know that the recommendations, which include strong budget reductions along with tax increases, are the only rational way for our collective enterprise, the United States, to both respond to our present economics (by implementing these changes a year hence) and stabilize our place in the international economic pecking order.

But reasonable people didn’t come out publicly first; instead the extremes both right and left hit the media with their untenable criticisms without rational alternative.